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Plot

The game begins as Galactus is eating the remains of a destroyed planet. Still hungry, he sends his herald Silver Surfer to find him more food. The Surfer's search leads him to Earth, where he is chased by S.H.I.E.L.D. and Iron Man. Silver Surfer is knocked out of the sky by Doctor Doom with his surfboard shattering into several "Cosmic Bricks" that fall onto the Earth. With these blocks containing immense power, Doctor Doom captures the powerless Surfer and forges an alliance with Loki and other villains to collect the Cosmic Bricks and make the powerful "Doom Ray of Doom" - which Doom intends to use to both stop Galactus from devouring Earth as well as to rule the planet. However, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury calls upon the superheroes of the Marvel Universe to retrieve the bricks before they can be captured by Doom and his army.

Fury tasks Black Widow and Hawkeye with finding the Cosmic Brick while Spider-Man heads to Oscorp in pursuit of the Green Goblin. The three are forced to face Venom inside Oscorp's underground lab while the Goblin once again escapes.

Wolverine works with Iron Man and the Hulk to secure the Raft, a maximum-security prison being raided by escaped prisoners, including Red Skull, Whiplash, Rhino, Abomination, Carnage, Leader, and Sabretooth, all of whom the heroes have to take down. Magneto is revealed to be a mastermind behind the mass breakout, and quickly makes his escape from the facility with the help of Mystique. After Magneto uses his powers to destroy Iron Man's armor, Stark goes with Captain America to Stark Tower to retrieve a new suit.

When Captain America and Iron Man arrive at Stark Tower, The Mandarin attacks the tower with Loki, Aldrich Killian, and several Extremis Soldiers, forcing Stark to initiate the "House Party Protocol", using his suits to defeat his nemesis. During the battle however, Loki steals one of Iron Man's miniature arc reactors.

Tracking the Arc Reactor's energy signature, S.H.I.E.L.D sends Black Widow, Hawkeye and Human Torch to the Empire State Building, where they infiltrate an underground HYDRA base there and defeat the Red Skull and Arnim Zola with the help of Captain America and Wolverine. Loki once again escapes using a portal to Asgard, built by HYDRA and powered by the Arc Reactor he stole, while the portal itself is accidentally destroyed during the battle.

Captain America, the Human Torch, and Wolverine meet Thor who takes them to Asgard to find Loki. Upon arrival at the Bifrost Bridge, they find that Loki has allied himself with the Frost Giants and they fight their way to Loki's domain, where Loki enhances his powers with the Tesseract. Loki unleashes The Destroyer armor on the heroes, but they disable the Destroyer while Loki escapes.

While the others argue about what to do with the Tesseract, Wolverine uses the distraction to steal it and take it to Professor X at the X-Mansion hoping it will help them find Magneto. The mansion is attacked by Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants. Jean Grey, Cyclops, Storm, Iceman, and Beast work together to rescue trapped students and defeat Toad, Pyro, Juggernaut, and the Acolytes. However, Magneto and Mystique escape with the Tesseract.

At this time, Fury decides to initiate Operation: Latveria to go and stop Doctor Doom. Fury, Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and Thing travel to Castle Doom to find him, but instead battle the Green Goblin. When the group find Doctor Doom, Loki collapses a pile of rocks on top of them before he and Doctor Doom escape with the bricks. However, Fury and the Fantastic Four are able to rescue the Silver Surfer.

Iron Man, Spider-Man and Thor head to a submarine where they defeat M.O.D.O.K. and his forces, being aided by Jean Grey in an attempt to find Doctor Doom underwater following the submarine's destruction.

Magneto, on the other hand, uses his powers to take control of the Statue of Liberty, bringing it to life and using it to attack Hulk, Mister Fantastic, and Wolverine. The heroes get trapped inside the statue and make it to its head, where they encounter and defeat Mastermind. Unfortunately, Lady Liberty literally loses her head in the fight.

Believing Magneto to be on Asteroid M Island, Fury sends Captain America and the Thing there, and with the help of Storm, they defeat Magneto's Acolytes along with Velociraptors from the Savage Land and Rhino. Mystique is revealed to be disguising as Magneto to lure the heroes to the island while the real Magneto continues with his plan, raising Asteroid M into space (although Captain America, the Thing and Storm all manage to slip on-board).

Doctor Doom and Loki arrive on Asteroid M and continue building the Doom Ray with their plan nearing completion. Iron Man, Spider-Man and Thor arrive there and fight Magneto, defeating him, but Iron Man and Thor are incapacitated by Doctor Doom in the process. Spider-Man goes on with Captain America, the Thing and Storm and they defeat Doctor Doom. With only Loki left, he reveals his elaborate scheme to harness the power of Galactus to destroy both Earth and Asgard, with Doctor Doom and the other villains merely been used to do his bidding. Loki uses the Doom Ray, shown to instead be a craft powered by the Cosmic Bricks and the Tesseract, to control Galactus. The heroes narrowly escape Asteroid M as Galactus destroys it before he heads towards New York.

With no other options left, Fury assembles the heroes (consisting of Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Mister Fantastic, Thing, Human Torch, Cyclops, and Storm) and villains (consisting of Doctor Doom, Doctor Octopus, Green Goblin, Venom, Abomination, Magneto, and Mystique) together in order to defeat Galactus on the S.H.I.E.L.D.Helicarrier, splitting the combined forces into several teams. After a long battle, Galactus and Loki are warped into a large portal, thus trapping both of them into an unknown part of space while Thor shatters the mind-control craft with his hammer. Fury also retrieves the Tesseract in the process. With Earth now safe, the heroes make an agreement with the villains to give them time to escape before they are pursued by the superheroes. With all the Cosmic Bricks collected and reassembled back into his surfboard, the Silver Surfer thanks the heroes for defeating Galactus and departs on his surfboard into deep space, promising to lead Galactus away from Earth.

In a mid-credits scene, Fury oversees the repair of the Statue of Liberty while receiving surprise visits from the Guardians of the Galaxy who showed up late to help fight Galactus. Nick Fury also finds Black Panther's pet cat Mr. Tiddles as Black Panther thanks him for stopping Galactus.

Bonus levels

When special requirements are met, the players can do 11 bonus missions that would be narrated by Deadpool.

Bonus Mission #1 – Phil Coulson oversees Doctor Octopus' community service of cleaning up the mess that he made at the Daily Bugle where they are told of what to do by J. Jonah Jameson. They managed to clean up the mess. Deadpool narrates that J. Jonah Jameson thanks Phil Coulson and Doctor Octopus where he grants them a free subscription to the Daily Bugle.

Bonus Mission #2 – Electro and Shocker are making large unscheduled withdraws at the Financial District. Captain America, Iron Man, and Spider-Man work to get the people inside the bank to safety. After the people are evacuated, Captain America, Iron Man, and Spider-Man defeat Electro and Shocker.

Bonus Mission #3 – At Stark Tower, Iron Man and War Machine work to get everything ready for the party like repairing the speakers and handling the DJ turntables. As the party gets started, the Iron Patriot armor arrives where Iron Man ends up in a dance-off against it and wins.

Bonus Mission #4 – At Marvel Comics HQ, Howard the Duck and Vulture are holding the comic book artists hostage. Spider-Man and Mister Fantastic arrive where they save the hostages and defeat Howard the Duck and Vulture.

Bonus Mission #5 – At Fisk Tower, Kingpin has taken a hostage as Captain America and Spider-Man work to free him. After Captain America and Spider-Man free the hostage, Daredevil arrives as Kingpin unleashes Elektra and Bullseye. After Elektra and Bullseye are defeated, Kingpin attacks Captain America, Daredevil, and Spider-Man where they managed to defeat him.

Bonus Mission #6 – At Fogwell's Gym, Blob is planning on joining it where Wolverine and Jean Grey have their objections to it. Wolverine and Jean Grey forged different foods which tires out Blob.

Bonus Mission #7 – At the circus in Central Park, Nightmare takes to the center ring to wreak havoc on the circus audience. Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Iceman receive help from Ghost Rider to fight Nightmare and an army of skeletons. The heroes managed to save the circus by defeating Nightmare.

Bonus Mission #8 – At the Central Park Zoo's Reptile House, Spider-Man and Thing find Dr. Curt Connors as he turns into Lizard in order to perfect his serum. Spider-Man and Thing are able to defeat Lizard and stop his experiments.

Bonus Mission #9 – At the Sanctum Sanctorum, Human Torch and Invisible Woman arrive to help Doctor Strange when Dormammu traps Doctor Strange in a mirror. When Human Torch and Invisible Woman destroy the artifacts, Doctor Strange is freed as he helps Human Torch and Invisible Woman to fight Dormammu and an army of skeletons. The heroes defeat Dormammu who is then sent back to the Dark Dimension.

Bonus Mission #10 – At the Raft, Magneto and Mystique infiltrate it when Magneto suspects that Mysterio has his chess set that Magneto had left behind. Mysterio is reluctant to give Magneto his chess set causing Magneto and Mystique to fight past the inmates to get to Mysterio. Magneto and Mystique defeat Mysterio as Magneto reclaims his chess set.

Bonus Mission #11 – Odin sends Thor and Loki to Jotunheim to rescue Heimdall after he was captured by Laufey and Malekith the Accursed. Thor and Loki are able to defeat Malekith and free Heimdall.

Gameplay

The player progresses through a number of levels following a linear plot, but can return to the levels later on in free play mode, using any of all of the playable characters they unlocked up until that point and in addition, there are a variety of side-levels to embark on.[6] LEGO Marvel Superheroes also carries over a large number of features that were included in LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes. For instance, heat-related characters can destroy gold bricks, rocket-using characters can destroy silver bricks, super heroes that have the power of flight in the comic books can fly in the game, and characters with super strength can destroy or manipulate LEGO objects that normal characters cannot. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes includes some new powers and abilities as well, however. For example, Spider-Man has his "spider senses" that allow him to locate hidden bricks required for advancing the gameplay in levels, and the "big-figs" like the Hulk and Abomination can destroy or manipulate objects in ways even different than characters with normal super strength. Not counting DLC characters, there are over 100 playable characters in the game.[7]

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, like its two predecessors LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes and LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game, contains a large open world that also acts as the game's hub. The open world is the Marvel universe version of New York, and it also includes a helicarrier above the city that one can access. Players may at any time in the game skydive from the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier down to New York hub. In the open world, players can also find the side-levels separate from the main storyline. These are hidden throughout New York City that feature characters not in the main story, have a comic style intro and outro, and are narrated by Deadpool.

Still more features from past LEGO games return in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, albeit slightly changed. There was a character creator that is much more advanced than in previous games: in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, players can choose what abilities they want their character to have, such as super strength, flight, etc (by equipping things like Magneto's helmet, Wolverine's claws, ect.). Certain pieces can also be recolored to make the character look more like whoever the player is trying to create, and players can save up to 12 custom characters at a time. The minikits return as well, with 10 in each level. By finding all 10 for a level, a unique comic book is unlocked, something that differs from past games where a small LEGO build (or, in the case of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, a minifigure) is unlocked instead.[8] In addition, the red power bricks are now known as "Deadpool" bricks. When players find one, then they can buy it off of Deadpool in his room aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier.[8] Also the citizen in peril is replaced by "Stan Lee in Peril" and if you find all 50, Stan Lee will be unlocked as a playable character.

One of the major difference between current (PS3, Xbox 360, etc.) and next generation (Wii U, PS4, Xbox One) versions is there are no loading times. It's instant because it comes straight off the hard drive.[9]

Crew

Notes

In addition to Clark Gregg from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, several voice actors also reprised their respective roles from other Marvel properties including Avengers Assemble and Ultimate Spider-Man.

Several characters are based on their appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Ultimate Spider-Man animated series.

There are 132 playable characters in the game, not including DLC characters and alternate costumes.[32] Along with 10 custom characters and the 16 bigfigs that exist in the game which you can change the colours in the Detention Cell in the SHIELD Helicarrier.[32]

References

Sandman says the famous melting line said by the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz, replacing melting with solidifying. (although he first said melting and then corrected himself)

When Thing, Mr. Fantastic, and the Invisible Woman jump out of the Fantasticar, Mr. Fantastic becomes a parachute, similar to Elastigirl from "The Incredibles". Mr. Fantastic even goes to the point of saying he saw it in a movie once.

At one point in the game, Hawkeye says, "It looks like… they’re coming out of the walls!" a reference to the movie Aliens.

The achievement " Falling... with Style" might be a reference to the first Toy Story movie, in which Buzz Lightyear tries to prove that he can fly, but ends up bouncing off a ball, riding on a race track and spinning around on a toy plane, which Woody states is "falling with style"

The level, "The Good, The Bad and The Hungry" is based on the 1966 Western movie, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly".

Press Statement

Marvel Super Heroes are assembling for an action-packed, brick-smashing good time! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games, The LEGO Group and Marvel Entertainment announced today that LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes will be available beginning Fall 2013 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Wii U™ system and Windows PC, as well as the Nintendo DS™ handheld system, Nintendo 3DS™ handheld system and PlayStation®Vita handheld entertainment system. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is the first instalment in the highly successful LEGO videogame franchise to feature famous Marvel characters.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes complements the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes construction toy collection, which brings the characters, vehicles and action of Marvel’s renowned universe to the world of LEGO build-and-play adventure. There are currently eight iconic scenes from the X-Men, Iron Man and Spider-Man franchises available and more construction sets tied to the new Iron Man 3 feature film will launch later this spring.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes offers an original storyline in which Nick Fury calls upon Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man, Wolverine and other heroes spanning the Marvel Universe to save Earth from such threats as the vengeance of Loki and the hunger of Galactus, Devourer of the Worlds. LEGO and Marvel fans will enjoy classic LEGO videogame adventure and humor, while playing as their favorite Marvel characters.

“We’re very excited to bring a myriad of classic Marvel characters to life in LEGO form for some fun, family-friendly gameplay in LEGO Marvel Super Heroes,” said Tom Stone, Managing Director, TT Games Publishing. “Players will brave the ultimate mission to save the world as they explore famous landmarks in LEGO New York and take the adventure beyond Earth to iconic locations in the Marvel Universe.”

“Fans of both LEGO and Marvel have wanted this game for years, and we’re addressing that demand with more Marvel Universe characters than ever in a console game,” said TQ Jefferson, Vice President, Games Production, Marvel Entertainment. “If you’re a fan of Spider-Man, the Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy or scores of other Marvel characters, this is the game for you.”

In LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, players will unlock more than 100 characters from across the Marvel Universe, including fan favorites like Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wolverine, Captain America, the Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Deadpool, Loki and Galactus! The game will pack in a plethora of super-cool character abilities, combat-like action sequences, epic battle scenes, puzzle-solving and a unique story told with playful LEGO humor.

LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is being developed by TT Games and will be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

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Official Box Art

The group of characters announced first

Concept artwork showing Iron Man, Hulk, and Spider-Man battling Sandman and some other villains (or Sandman split up into other Figures)